Late Ordovician brachiopods from the South China Plate and their palaeogeographical significance

Special Papers in Palaeontology

Volumn 59, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-69

  Ren Bin, Zhan ^a   Cocks, L R M ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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